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Chapter 4: Yin-Yang

Kenichi had just finished tying the belt to his Gi in his room before there was a knock on his door. "Come in." He said as the door opened revealing Miu in her spandex jumpsuit. She gave him a smile, "Are you ready?"

The boy closed as he replied, "Of course.." was all he managed to get out before he felt something hitting his throat and his legs gave away.

Miu looked at the slump Kenichi with a sorry glance before walking out. As she exited the Dojo, she looked to see her grandfather on the opposite side of the wall.

The Elder gave a small smile, "That wasn't a nice thing to do to someone who wanted to help you, Miu."

"I have to do this by myself, Grandfather."

"And what makes you think you're the one who should."

"Naruto is my brother, this makes it Furinji clan business. Kenichi shouldn't be involved in this."

The Elder looked at his grandchild with a stare, "Is that really all?"

Under the gaze of the Elder, Miu started to sweat a little before telling the truth, "Fine, Kenichi shouldn't fight because as he is now; he doesn't stand a chance." After some time had passed allowing her lust for money to calm down, Miu could finally see that her brother could heat Kenichi in a number of different ways.

Of course, it could also be her over protectiveness of her first friend based on the amount of killing intent that he gave out. There was also the fact that she may get to know her brother better by going through a family tradition... Fighting.

The Elder closed his eyes, "You know I won't stop you from doing what you think is best. However, I want you to also remember something; Katsujinken is the philosophy of life and protection. You may find yourself not agreeing with it at times but it is the truth."

Miu hugged the Elder, "I know, Grandfather, wish me luck." As she left, he waited for a few minutes while waiting for the another masters of Ryozanpaku to appear with the knocked-out Kenichi.

It was after school the next day, Naruto found himself waiting at a clearing that was chosen for the game that he was playing. As he was warming up, he saw Miu walking towards the clearing.

As she reached the arena, he joked, "You know that outfit's not leaving anything to the imagination, right?"

Showing an unknown serious side, Miu got into a stance, "Let's start this. I have to make dinner, you know."

"Fine Fine, let me just go over the rules once more before we begin. A game's more fun when both parties knows about the rules." Naruto scratched his head, "As you already told you, it's a full contact match with three minute intervals with a minute to relax. There's no killing and/or maiming otherwise everything else is free.

The only way to win is to disable or knock the other person out. Do you accept and comply by these rules?"

Miu's next words were, "I do..." She then blushed as those were the exact words used for a Western marriage and being a beautiful bride was her dream.

Oblivious to his sister's thought process, he smiled, "Then, let the match begin."

Kajima

Satomi Kajima was kneeling with his head bowed. In front of him was a computer screen that was blacked out while the Kanji for Shadow was displayed. A synthesis voice from the computer spoke, "Speak Kajima, what is the question you wished to ask?"

"Forgive me, Saiga-sensei but why did you allow Naruto to remain in Korea?" Kajima lifted his head, "It just doesn't make any sense. You know that Naruto would lose his position as 'the one who shall inherit the styles'."

A few moments passed before the reply came, "It's understandable but I allowed it for two reasons. The first is simply this; I wanted him to learn that he can never joined the normal world."

"I don't understand."

"If Japan is the public face of martial arts then Korea is the underbelly; the dark, slimy place that no one wants to know about but they cannot deny the fact that it exists. There, martial artists die everyday honing their craft and teaching the younger generation; the world in which I want to spread to the rest of the planet.

Naruto is my son and yet he foolishly believes that he can join the two worlds. The time came that he had to choose between the normal world or the one that he was born in. He chose this world when he learned that there is nothing for him there."

"And the second reason?"

"I wanted to see if Korea could produce young masters just as well as other parts of the world. Everywhere I went, it was old men after men with the adults. Naruto was the logical choice since he was already proficient in the Furinji Style. Does this answer your questions?"

"Of course, Sensei..."

Ryozanpaku

"I said it once and I'll say it again. Yami truly trained their disciples well." Akisame stated from a rooftop along with other Ryozanpaku masters. They were watching the fight or rather match between the grandchildren of 'The Invincible Superman' with interest.

Sakaki sliced the top of a beer bottle with a knife hand, "By the looks of things, the kid really was telling the truth when he said he wasn't going for killing blows." The brats were now locked in a clench that stopped them from using their arms. Sakaki noted that there was some karate principles in how the boy brat was fighting.

The Elder nodded, "Indeed but the boy was trained under Satsujinken and we must... That must have hurt." He was referring to the fact that his grandson intentionally dislocating his arm to go for an overhead ax kick.

Apachai's eyes turned into bright stars, "Apapappapapa, it makes Apachai remember the time Apachai went into Muay Thai underworld match where Apachai gave a leg for the win." He would have practiced his techniques in the open had it not been for Shigure who gave tug on a leash-like ribbon on Apachai's neck.

Kensei, who was holding a camera, shushed them, "Can't you see that I'm trying to record for our disciple to watch here?" Akisame turned to see that Kensei had two camera out and shrugged.

The second camera was probably at aimed at Miu's body, knowing Kensei's tendencies but it wasn't his problem.

Miu and Naruto

Miu couldn't believe what she just saw. Her own brother dislocated his own shoulder in order to get that needed reach for an axe kick. She knew that Yami taught their disciples to throw everything for the sake of victory but that's just insane.

"Let's just stop this, you can only use one arm now." Miu pleaded, in her eyes this made sense since defeating him like this had no honor.

Naruto chuckled before letting out loud laughter; he looked at Miu with a crazed grin, "Stop? This party just's getting started." Naruto then grabbed his dislocated arm with his working one and popped the joints right back in with a sickingly POP.

Miu flinched when she heard the sound before exclaiming, "Doing that too many times can caused the joints to weaken!"

"I know what I'm doing!" Naruto's then asked, "Besides, do you even have to worry about other people?" Just then, the clock ring signaling the end of the round. Both sides sighed before Naruto hit the other clock that was set for the resting period.

Both Naruto and Miu sat down to conserve and partially restore their energy. Miu looked at her brother who was sitting bored out of his mind. She asked him, "Hey, Naruto..."

"What?"

"What was your life like?"

"Why're you asking?" Naruto was definitely confused where Miu wanted to go with this.

"I just wanted to know. I can tell you about my life as well." Miu pointed to herself before going on about her home and school life. When she reached the part where she changed her looks to stop the attention, Naruto laughed, "What?"

With small hiccups lodged in his throat, Naruto replied, "The fact that you tried to hide who you really are makes me giggle. What's wrong with us that we have to hide our personalities?"

"And what about you, mister listens but never speaks about his life?" Miu pouted at the unfairness about that.

Naruto looked at the clock, which showed a few seconds left on the clock. He stood up, ready to hit the match clock and said, "If you want to know about that then finish this next round."

Miu stood up and nodded. She got into a stance as the alarm bell rang. Naruto then but the alarm and started the match. He then turned around to face Miu, and spoke in a deep voice, "Round two, Fight!"

Naruto rushed forward and sent a straight jab. Miu went to block with an open palm but Naruto opened his index and middle finger to touch Miu's thumb and went for an elbow strike to the face.

Realizing this, Miu managed to raise her own arm in time to block but felt like it was getting hit by cement. She grabbed the arm which had earlier countered her palm and twisted it.

Using the twist for momentum, Naruto twisted his body in midair for a fancy midair spin kick. However, that was put to a stop as Miu punched him in mid-air at the greatest weakness of any man, even the Elder himself.

The balls...

Naruto flew backwards a little and stood on his legs. He was rocking slightly from the force of the hit. Miu, knowing just how precious those were to a man, clamped her hands to her mouth before realizing her hand that had touched the balls were on her mouth.

Kensei was nearly in tears at what he just witnessed. Sakaki was roaring in laughter while nearly spilling his drink. Apachai had no clue what was going on and Akisame, The Elder and Shigure kept neutral expressions even through there was a smirk on the Mistress of Weapons face.

Sakaki looked at the Elder and joked, "Is he also going to have to be able to beat you to date Miu?"

"I highly doubt that Miu is into incest." The Elder responded before a dark miasma appeared as his eyes glowed, "But if they get along that way then no exceptions will be made."

Kenichi, waking up while feeling a dark force in the air, saw that aura that the Elder was giving off, immediately went for the nearest thing to hide behind which happens to Shigure. The lady looked down before saying, "Uh...Kenichi..."

Sakd person looked to see that his hands were on Shigure's breasts. Backing off, Kenichi put his hands in the air, "I-I'm sorry, Shigure-shisho. I didn't mean to!" Kenichi bowed his head.

Kensei whisper frantically, "Would you please be quiet? I'm trying to film here."

Curious about what was being filmed, he looked to see Miu red-faced as she looked at Naruto. Not understanding what was going but he knew that she had accepted the match. So being the chivalrous guy that he is, he intended to go down there and scolded Naruto for fighting a girl before taking Miu's place.

Or that was his plan until Akisame pinned Kenichi down and sat on him. To add insult to injury, Kenichi had a rag stuffed into his mouth before a piece of cloth was tied around his mouth.

"I can't let you go down there, Kenichi. This is Miu's fight and she deserves to finish it." Akisame said as Kenichi begin muffled screaming.

"Are you alright?" Miu asked while keeping a safe distance away. Naruto nodded, "I'm fine; guess that's what I get for calling for no safety gears. Anyways, let's continue..." Naruto rushed forward with Miu doing the same.

The two of them threw punches as Naruto couldn't throw any kicks without increasing the pain and Miu making sure that she didn't hit anywhere under the waistline. This went on until the bell rang.

As Naruto set the alarm for the next round, Miu exclaimed, "So, you promised me tell me about your life."

"So I did, let's see; what do you know about already?" When Miu told all she knew, Naruto said, "Well, the reason I first stayed in Korea was for a friend that I met. Han Shinwoo and I were the best of friends; some might even say brothers in all but blood."

"Then, why did you take his name then?"

"It's a bit of symbolism I guess. We both never finish middle school and if anyone deserves to live right now then it's him." Naruto had glaze in his eyes as he looked in the direction of Korea.

The bell rung for the next match, however a phone rang from a corner where Naruto kept his stuff. Naruto gave a look to which Miu answered, "Go ahead." The boy then stopped the timer and went over to pick his phone.

"Hey, what do you want? I'm busy right now... No, I'm having a fun time hanging out with my estranged sister... I only have one sister, dumbass and yes, she's the one that Shou talks about... (Huff) Fine, I get it; I'm going right now."

Hanging up, Naruto looked up to see Miu still in a stance, waiting for the verdict, "So sorry about that but duty calls. Business before pleasure and all that."

"So what now?" Miu was confused at what was going to happen next.

"Unfortunately, our playtime has come to an end. While I can't pay you the ten million because you didn't win, I can pay about half for playing." Miu's eyes turned into gold bars when she heard 'half of ten million' and 'pay' in the same sentence.

Naruto took out a check and a pen to write something before handing the piece of paper over to Miu, "Here you go and thanks for playing; Now I gotta scram." Naruto ran in a direction leaving Miu all by herself.

Ryozanpaku

"Well, that was anti-climatic." Akisame stated as he watched the boy leave. While he would also prefer the boy give up the darkness, it must be by his own choice.

Sakaki chugged his fourth bottle, "At least we know that Miu can handle him in a fight if she has to, don't know bout Kenichi through." Kenichi, who was being sit upon by Shigure, let out a muffled yell from his red-face.

"You forget... he didn't... want to...kill or maim. It limit...his options...on how to fight." Shigure reminded Sakaki as she wiped her blade.

The Elder turned around and headed towards Ryozanpaku, "For now, let's head back to Ryozanpaku. I'm sure Miu would love to celebrate getting five million yen."

Kensei closed the camera he held, "Should we celebrate, that is dirty money from Yami."

"Who cares where it comes from? Miu recovered it fairly for us, I say that deserves celebrating."

Naruto

Naruto was picking his ear with his pinky as he sat in a comfortable chair. In front of him was Uncle Senzui, who was watching the boy with eagle eyes. Naruto asked as he stirred a drink in his hand, " So... Why did you call for me?" He then took a sip from the glass.

The Kuremisago ninja looked at his friend's child, "It seems that you have been slacking in your shinobi training, Naruto. We have to remedy that as soon as we can."

For some reason, he felt like he had this same conversation before. Naruto replied, "I'm not going to be a shinobi so why..." The room started to swirl and everything seemed to blur; Naruto dropped his drink as Senzui leaned forward, "You are a Kuremisago, even if by name only. Even if you don't become a shinobi, learning techniques that you would have never learned had it not be for Shizuka-hime must surely be a boon."

At that moment, Naruto passed out on the floor with repressed memories returning in the form of dreams.

Naruto looked at the group of men who were defeated by him all by his lonesome since Han Shinwoo was stuck in remedial class. He kicked the body closest to him, "Remember punks, rape is not a good thing."

He looked over to where he knew the woman was hiding. She had her head poking out from a corner. Naruto removed his school jacket and threw it over to her, "Here, take it and cover yourself up."

She gave a nod of thanks before putting it on, "Thank you..."

"Naruto Furinji; first name first."

"Furinji-ssi, I don't know how to repay you." At that moment, Naruto's stomach rumbled making the boy scratch his head sheepishly. The woman clapped her hands, "How about I take you to a restaurant as a start?"

"That's sounds okay; I don't know your name through."

"My name is ..."

Naruto laid his head down and had his head petted. He wanted to bawl out loud since it's been some months since the breakup. Why did it still hurt after all this time?

"It's okay, Naruto. It's completely normal to still be hurt from a betrayal like that." Naruto looked up and came in closer for a kiss.

With frantic speed, Naruto opened the door to his room. Inside, the place was wrecked and a table with a note that said "Read me..." He read it and it read, "We have your girlfriend. Come alone and unarmed to this location or we can't guarantee her safety."

As Naruto finished reading the note, his phone started to ring. When he picked it up, he noted that Shinwoo was the one calling.

Shinwoo's voice was calm and collected, "Hey Naruto, why are you right now?"

"Some crew that we beaten in the past ransacked our place. They also have XXXXX." Naruto was panicking that it was him that out her in danger.

"You go free your girl, man. I'll catch up with ya later."

"You need something from me? That's usually the only reason we ever the cells."

"Not really, I was just checking up on you. I'll see you later." With that, the phone call was over and Naruto rushed to the meeting place.

"Was everything we been through a lie?" Naruto asked, he couldn't believe it. Twice, he gave his heart to someone and twice he had it squashed. The boy was standing over his ex-girlfriend as she had been defeated by his own hand.

"Of course, because of you, my brother was humiliated and jailed before he committed suicide. I wanted revenge and nothing is better than as a dish served cold." XXXXXX smiled cruelly as she huffed, "Not only did I take your heart, I also stole your best friend from you."

Naruto was confused, "What do you..." A loud gunshot rang and Naruto could feel warm liquid coming from his lower chest. He looked down to see that he was actually shot; Naruto then kneeled down, fatigue from his fight and his red liquid of life dripping from his wound.

As he looked up into the sky, Naruto saw a figure before it then it then stomped on his face. The next thing he knew, he woke up cuffed on a hospital bed surrounded by cops. The next words spoken on cemented the reality he was in...

"Furinji Naruto-ssi, You're under arrest for multiple counts of assault and the murder of Han Shinwoo."

Done, to be honest, I didn't like the way this chapter was written but I did the best I could with what I got from this noggin of mine. The next one should be much better.

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